A comprehensive landscape of human organ N-glycoproteome
N-glycosylation, as a common post-translational modification with complex structures, plays key roles in protein folding, cellular recognition and signaling pathways. State-of-the-art mass spectrometry-based N-glycoproteomics has enabled deep N-glycoproteome characterization of various human organs. However, a comprehensive N-glycoproteome landscape of human organs remains lacking. Here we present a systematic human N-glycoproteome atlas spanning 74 subjects across 18 organs/tissues with identification of 57,884 N-glycan structure-level and 23,863 monosaccharide composition-level intact N-glycopeptides on 7543 N-glycosites of 5062 N-glycoproteins. Tissue-specific N-glycosylation patterns and crosstalk between sialylation and fucosylation are observed. An organ classifier using multiple machine learning models on our N-glycopeptide dataset is trained. This atlas, complemented by a unified multi-software analysis framework, provides insights into organ-specific glycobiology and establishes a fundamental reference for understanding physiological N-glycosylation characteristics of human tissues.
Authors
- Suideng Qin
- Zhixin Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2877-8282)
- Hongwei Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1086-3718)
- Chao Qin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-2394)
- Yanggang Yuan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2764-9486)
- Tao Wang
- Xiaoyu Hu
Institutions
- Tongji University (CN)
- Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital (CN)
- Jiangsu Province Hospital (CN)
- Nanjing Medical University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2026-06-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74631-7
- Primary Topic
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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